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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up: Here and There, D-Day and All That, and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of the marines in the Guadalcanal campaign were under twenty-one years of age?
(a) One hundred percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Eighty percent.
(d) Twenty percent.

2. What does Paul Pisicano believe binds American suburbians?
(a) Anti-Jewish sentiment.
(b) Anti-black sentiment.
(c) Anti-German sentiment.
(d) Anti-Italian sentiment.

3. What black market item was in demand among Russian troops in Vienna in 1945?
(a) Mickey Mouse watches.
(b) Pirated big band music.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Chocolate.

4. How does Mike Royko believe most U.S. soldiers felt about the Korean conflict?
(a) They wanted to defeat North Korea.
(b) They didn't understand it.
(c) They were glad to have their chance to fight.
(d) They wanted to defend South Korea.

5. What surprised Anton Biler about his Japanese overseer in the prison camp?
(a) He was from Seattle.
(b) He was kind.
(c) He was against the war.
(d) He spoke English.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many support personnel were behind each rifleman?

2. What was a Victory Garden?

3. What racism did Sheril Cunning experience growing up in California?

4. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?

5. What did British boys learn in the Know Your Enemy program?

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